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Previously Netanyahu has talked of local leaders taking over the administration of not only Gaza, but also urban Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank. The Wall Street Journal commentary pages (third page of the opinion section in the print edition) have had three pieces on this subject. The first concerns the West Bank in the H2 area of Hebron, and the second is an objection to this proposal. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-palestinian-offer-peace-israel-hebron-sheikh-emirate-36dd39c3 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-hebron-emirate-or-a-colonial-deception-israel-west-bank-palestinians-44e40266 In Gaza Israel has armed militias a/k/a gangs based on clans. The third commentary, by Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the "Popular Forces", advocates an enclave for Gazans not affiliated with Hamas on land of the Gaza Tarabin Bedouin in eastern Rafah. This person has a smuggling and criminal history, and is believed to be behind most of the violent looting of aid trucks with the connivance of IDF forces around the Kerem Shalom aid entry point. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gazans-are-finished-with-hamas-commander-popular-forces-5d9a6345 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/israel-accused-of-arming-palestinian-gang-who-allegedly-looted-aid-in-gaza

Anyone who loves their pet would never donate their living little friend. Imagine the poor things in a holding pen waiting to be exterminated. Wouldn't recently deceased pets seem a more sensitive alternative?

Try googling "do statins increase risk of alzheimer's" to get other opinions on this issue.

So are you following the Atkins diet?

Usufruct and lease are not the same thing. Also, usufruct might be more secure than a lease which can be broken in certain circumstances. However, I seem to remember reading a while ago that a usufruct given by one's spouse is not as secure as with an unrelated person.

The "river to the sea" movement that is happening right now is Greater Israel. Hamas has already agreed to accept a two state solution, which is now the position of many countries that have finally realized that the status quo is unsustainable. The problem is to get to a point in the road to a two state solution where the concept of a sovereign Palerstinian state is clear and the process cannot be derailed by Amerika or its wagging tail. That would obviate the need or excuse for armed resistance to an occupation.

The US should help the people defeat the junta, then help them build processing facilities for their rare earths.

Unfortunately Zohran was born to Indian parents in Uganda, so he is not eligible to run.

The US State Department went out of its way to sabotage the Conference: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5419094-us-un-conference-israel-palestine/ And US official policy advocates the two-state solution!

With reference to Palestinian prisoners, they have been raped at Sde Teiman military prison in the Negev. It was big in the news, but you don't know about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_against_Palestinians_during_the_Gaza_war https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/israels-escalating-use-torture-against-palestinians-custody-preventable https://theintercept.com/2024/08/09/israel-prison-sde-teiman-palestinian-abuse-torture/

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening The current recommendation is not to test PSA in men over 70, although this site announces that there is an update in progress. It has a number of sections (scroll down) on rationale, etc, for their determinations. When I recently had a colonoscopy in Bangkok, they would only do so under general anesthesia since I'm near 80 years old. Not my preference.

Israel needs to get over its paranoia. Now this has resulted in going rogue, violating the basic international rules through which it was born.

Individual countries or groups of countries can declare sanctions on Israel. They don't need Trump's permission.

One shouldn't take violence advocated in one's holy book too seriously. Israel will undo itself by its wanton obsession to dominate the Middle East. Try living in peace for a change.

Sanctions would be more effective.

Yes, and the perpetrators will say that they were just following orders. There are a lot of selfie videos they made happily committing war crimes, so their version may not be too credible.

Maybe Christians have a different moral view: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. What we see Israelis doing is a corruption of this thinking: Do unto others as has been done to you. Genocide begets genocide?

The ICJ last year ruled that it's Gaza and the West Bank, and that the Zionist settlers should move out ASAP.

What the Palestinians were offered from 1993 on was not really a sovereign state. They were really bamboozled in the Oslo negotiations. There were no safeguards in the case of bad faith by Israel, which is what they got. Settlements and more settlements. Now an ex-mayor of Jerusalem is proposing that the "sheikhs" in various urban areas, starting with Hebron, form independent entities to govern themselves. It sounds like South African bantustans. That fits snugly into the Apartheid well documanted by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Your claim about Palestinian identity corresponds to the fantasy: A land without people for a people without land. How preposterous.

There are Christian Zionists, like the US ambassador to IZ.

Maybe they had a stock of gadolinium to use before the expiration date.

I find questionable limiting colonosopies and PSA tests to age 75 (or for PSA even earlier). Some people can live beyond the average, even over 100. It's a cost thing by bean counters. Biden didn't have his PSA checked for a while, so now he has Stage 4 prostate cancer.

I think that in the US it is about cost, not about lives saved.

I read in the WSJ that this is a Cloudfare operation to block bots from vacuuming a website for some company that is building an AI large language model. I have encountered this, too.

I would call them squatters or terrorists.